Bismarck, ND. This is the half that really counts, especially when you are defending an NAHL Central Division championship. The Bobcats come into tonight’s match up looking for win number 20 of the season when they play Aberdeen @ 7:15 pm central time. That is if Aberdeen makes it into town. The Bobcats are defending 2 titles. Not only are they defending the Central Division, they are defending the NAHL.

Owatonna, Minnesota. There was a lot riding on this series. Going into the Chirstmas break, this was a very important series. The winner would have the momentum going into Christmas. On Friday night, Owatonna got on the board first on a mistake by Bismarck’s number 31 Ryan Faragher. With Owatonna capitalizing when Schyler Adams capitalized on a Faragher mistake. But the Bobcats quickly bailed out their all star goalie on a goal by Charles Mosey, tying the game at 1. The Bobcats grabbed the momentum making the next goal the game winner on a goal by Daniel Zawacki. Score 2-1 Bobcats. The next night, the Bobcats derailed the Express, scoring a 5-1 win. Here is Saturday night’s recap. Saturday night the Bobcats applied pressure on Owatonna early and often. Brett Bower would score first with help from Francis DeAugustine in period one. In the second period, Grant Mindt scored with help from Samuel Dougherty making the score 2-0. Owatonna would get on the board in the 3rd period with a score by Lawrence Cornellier making it 2-1, but not for long. The Bobcats scored three times after that, by Daniel Zawacki, Bryce Schmitt, and Francis DeAugustine, making it a 5-1 Bobcats win. The Bobcats have a record of 19-8-1 and Owatonna has a record of 16-12-4. The next Bobcats game is on Thursday December 30th when they look to barbecue the Wings. Face off is at 7:15pm.

Saturday December 11, 2010 Bismarck, ND

On Saturday night, the Bobcats were looking to sweep the Bruins out of town. When you are a first place team and the other team is in last place, you want to take the life out of them early. This is what the Bobcats did, scoring not even a minute into the game, on a beautiful play by #12 Matthew Gates when he undressed the goalie and put it in the five hole. Later, the tough Texan Tom Rizzardo would do the two-step and Austin would not be dancing. However, the Bruins would try to get something brewing when Sam Olson scored on a little bit of puck luck, but BIsmarck would snap the momentum right back when Emerson created a little bit of sunshine on his own, driving the dagger in the Bruins comeback attempt, thus making the final score 3-1. The Bobcats are in first place in the central division with a record of 17-8-1. The next game for the Bobcats will be away against Owatonna.

Friday December 10, 2010 Bismarck, ND

It was Austin’s first trip to Bismarck in the Bobcats Den. When you come into a Bobcats Den you enter at your own risk and for Austin that proved to be true on Friday night. With the Bobcats scoring, at will, whenever they wanted to. Here is the scoring recap. In the first period it was tied at 0. In the second period it was an avalanche of Bobcats scoring with Daniel Zawacki being the first to go five hole with the rest of his team mates following. Final score Bismarck 5, Austin 0. With the win, the Bobcats are now 16-8-1.